St. Louis County Board votes to supports copper mining
December 20, 2011 at 12:15 pm in Duluth News Tribune
The vote came after some 60 people testified over five hours in the tiny Morse Town Hall where nearly 100 people packed inside and another 40 were forced to wait outside for their turn to enter and make their statement.
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Good to see this step. Let’s show the world how mining can be done safely for the workers and the environment.
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Yesterday’s vote by the slim margin of one vote says the St. Louis County board backed sulfide ore mining. However, the most important fact is that it took two days of at least 8 hours each of intensive dialogue with hundreds in attendance to make any decision. This is definitely a message to the pro sulfide ore mining politicians, civic leaders, sulfide ore mining company executives, and citizens who want sulfide ore mining that the silent majority of people concerned with jobs and with the environment have finally heard enough mining company propaganda and have spoken up. This was a tough win for the pro sulfide mining group. And, this was a thinly veiled superficial endorsement of sulfide mining, which has no binding legal substance. However, the mining execs needed it badly to bolster their dissenting investors as PloyMet stocks continue their nosedive. This was a moral victory for the jobs and pro clean water people who came out in mass over the pro sulfide mining people. Plus, the jobs and pro clean water group did not need a coach bus, paid for by Frank Ongaro and the mining companies to haul the people from Hibbing, Virginia, etc. to the Morse Town Hall in ELy to speak. Each of the rest of us came paying our own gas from as far away as Grand Marais and Duluth, MN. No bribes taken by the jobs and pro clean water group.
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